Beyond the Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 205, 4 November 1909, Page 3

Beyond the Dominion

T"i:f: >:: A I ■' 1 yYO-.-v.: <-r At a rr.eetin;; in Montana, t'-vo guide? dramatically confronted iJr Cook, and declared thai he had never ascended Mt MacKinley. A(ter many hours' wrangling between Dr Cook and the guides the meeting expressed its confidence and belief in the statements of the guides. CANADA'S DOCKS. Ottawa, October 31. The Canadian naval scheme contemplates the fortification of Sydney, Cape Breton, owing to the fact that coal for the East Coast passes through that place. Experts have already surveyed the site. The Government has refused to subsidise the Levis and St John docks to the extent the recent deputation suggested. The Government believes that small Federal assistance will be sufficient to ensure the completion of the enterprise. FLOODS IN ENGLAND. London, October 30. Torrential rains have fallen in London and in the south eastern counties of England. Heavy floods have occurred in the Medway Valley, and there has been wholseale destruction of crops in Sussex. Large tracts of land in Sussex are still under water. At Brighton four inches of rain fell on Thursday. In Kent thousands of sheep have been drowned, and serious floods have occurred in the city of Canterbury and borough of Folkestone. NAVAL CONSTRUCTION. London, October 29. The cruiser battleship Indefatigable has been launched at Devonport. Her dimensions have been kept secret, but there is no doubt that she is the longest warship in the world. Her displacement is 19,000 tons, and her probable speed 28 knots. The second class cruiser Gloucester has been launched on the Clyde. Paris, October 29. The French cruiser Mirabeau, 18, 000 tons has been launched. SOUTH AFRICA'S GOVERNORGENERAL. Capetown, October 30. A bitter discussion is proceeding in South Africa over the rumour that Mr Herbert Gladstone is to be appointed Governor-General of South Africa. Many object to the name of Gladstone, which is associated with the bitterest controversy in South Africa. The Natal Mercury says the appointment of Mr Herbert Gladstone would be tbe worst possible selection. The Transvaal Leader says sarcastically that Mr Gladstone's experience with the suffragettes may qualify him to handle the Asiatic passive resisters. The Johannesburg Star says if the choice is limited to the present Cabinet South Africa might go further and fare worse. Londno, October 30. The Times strongly opposes the suggested appointment of members of the Government to three great positions becoming vacant, viz., Viceroy of India, Governor-General of South Africa and Governor-General of Canada, especially the appointment to such positions of failures or nonentities. REVOLT IN GREECE. Athens, October 30. Tbe young naval officers of Greece, feeling that only tbe army had benefitted by the recent coup organised and demanded that tbe Government remove several senior officers. The Government yielded and introduced a Bill to reduce the limit of age for full service as an officer in the navy. The concessions contained in tbe Bill were refused by Lieutenant Typaldos, commander of a flotilla of torpedo boats and submarines, acting on behalf of the junior naval officers. Typaldos, with 20 officers and 300 men, seized tbe naval powder magazines upon the island of Skyro. They then boarded four destroyers and the cruiser Canaris, and lay in the Straits of Salamis.

The Government sent field batteries which bombarded the mutinous vessels for twenty minutes from the heights of Sacramanga. Loyal warships on the opposite side of the channel also shelled tbe rebels.

The rebes replied to the fire from the Government ships and field batteries but finally Typaldos and his force took refuge behind a headland and here a shell struck the rebel destroyer Shendone. The Government state that they are determined to suppress the outbreak by force. Athens, October 31. After the fight the rebels were obliged to beach the destroyer Shendone. The sailors and petty officers landed and surrendered,' while Lieutenant Typaldos and other officers escaped aboard the destroyer Melems, and landed in mufti between Eleasis and Magara. They have not yet been captured. The Military League, ben Ik satisfied with the concessions granted at their request joined the Government and helped to suppress the naval revolt. AMERICAN SQUADRON. Manila, November 1. The American cruiser squadron which reached Manila yesterday, reports that the Natives <■: one Admiralty Islands car'.'-.red tkr-.-e J-.r.g----lishmen and three <'!.::.■ :-■_- :n a b;a;. One of the Enlishn.' :. '-s :■} ■ ■'■ ]■-■:■' the Natives kike: ;■.:.■'; ;.;< ■ •:.>- • '.:. c r five. The Admiralty Isiav.is '■-,:. sis; .■:' a group of forty islands ; : \:s; :-.;;;:; o: the equator and N.K. > f New Guinea. They are inhabit-, d ; w ;. rao ■■;" tawny savages of Par;:;-.:' y-xc-<■)■:, ab'>u; -"' ! in number. Th'-y "■'■'(-re ar.!.<-:-;e.". < y Germany in :--". ;■■: 'I nov.' :<•:-::■ ]■:■.•:'. of the Pismari: Ar.-kit.eiago.